Humidifier.



F. B; OOMINS. HUMIDIPIER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 28, 1907. I

Patented Oct 6, 1908.

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FRANK B. (JOMINS,'OF SHARON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HUMIDIFIER.

No. 900,856. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Oct. 6, 1908.

Application filed may 28, 1907. Serial No. 376,076.

To all whom it may concern:

:Be it known that I, FRANK. l3. CoMrNs. of Sharon, in the county of Norfolk and State .of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Humidifiers and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawingls, forming part of this specification.

his invention has reference to improvernentsin humidifiers or air moistening ma chines, designed to su ply moisture to air forced or drawn throng said machines.

'One object of the invention is to construct a humidifier that air forced or drawn therethrough, to benioistened, may operate a movable moisture distributor, whereby moisture may be distributed to said air.

Anotherobject of the invention is to sim plify the construction of humidifiers.

- The invention consists ina humidifier having arotatable n'ioisture distributing element, and means for directing it column of air against said element to eii'ect its rotation The invention also consists in such other novel features of construction and combine.-

tion of parts shall hereinafter be more fully described and pointed out in. the claim.

Figure 1, represents a longitudinal vertical sectional view of the improved humidifier. Fig. 2, represents n. ss sectional View thereof-taken on line 2-)! Fig. 1.

Sin'iilar numbers of rel'erence desiginite corresponding ports in both ii -ruins.

In carrying this invention into prnclico, 1 construct a main casing having a fun raising furnished with a series of air inicts (-3 {5 li!" low which fan cln'unhrr. the cnsio f: prcl'on ably slightly c mtrn. -.Led and curved. to form the neck 7 having; the support Secured to the neck 7 of the main cnsin in any suitable manner to form n. Witter i ht joint, is the s humidifier chaniln'ir 9, preferably havil'ig a cylind 'ical wull nnd furnished with the support 1.0 and the water inlet funnel 11, while the end portion of this chamber 9 is curved upwardly to form the outlet 12 having the flaring opening 12?. Within the chamber 9 are mounted the standards l4.--l4' having lmarings in which the shalt 1.5 is rigidly so cured, a series of arms iii--16 arranged in )irel series aroimd snid shaft, and having tieir outer ends connected by the wire 17 These arnis 16-l(i form a rigid spiral suit;-

port for absorbent material 18, prefernhy cloth, which is designed to absorb moisture contained in the lower pm'tion of the cherry her and carry the said moisture u word when. the shaft 15 and its spiral. (.iiStIi)LlllPl is rotated.

Within. the fan chamber 5 is rotatably mounted the fan 19, of any suitable construction, which is designed to be rotated by any ordinary means, but preferably by on eleetrio motor conventionally iiuilicated 120.

Air drawn into the fan clizunber tl'irough the inlets 6 6 by the rotation of the fun it) is forced through the neck 7 of the fan chem ber 9, where said. air sets against the spire! moisture distributer, formed by the absorbent material 18 and its support, and eifeets the rotation of said distributor, whereby the moisture taken up as the distributor passes through the water in the chamber 9, is constantly carried upward and is absorbed 'by the 21-h passing through said chamber.

The pitch of the screw formed by-thc spirally arranged moisture distributor in .y be greater or less than that shown in the drawinay readily rotate under the action of the air forced through the-chamber 9.

The spiral moisture distrilnitcr may he constructed of any nuiterird designed to receive moisture from the co nparni i'vely small body of water contsined in. the lower portion of the clini'nber 9 end to carry said moisture upward but said distriijiuter formed of some uhsorhent material which will readily take up the moisture.

Instead of Writer in. the chzunl'icr 9, any well known fluid disinfectant or gormicidc may be used, or medicafcl enor may be supplied to such chamber to be mixed w th the air 'pnssin r thcrethrough by the I'Utti'JOll oithe rotntab e spiral element.

llnving thus described my invci' tion I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent.

A humidifier comprising n cylindrical mg, and preferably such, that this screw is prr-ei'crebly v lnoistening chmn'bur harving upturned ends In testimony whereof I affix my signature one oflwhich rTowns a fan chamibe-r, a slmft, in presume of two witnesses. 'ouma ed in Marin s in. said cml'nbvr and Laving a spiral supp rt, a moisture dist'ribut- FRANK N 5 ing element mounted on said suppofla, and a W imesses:

fan rota-tably mount-ed in said fan chamber, f CHARLES B. UUMMINGB, as and for the purpose described. HE RY J. MILLER. 

